Football, Culture and Power (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society, 66, Band 66) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138923567 ISBN 13: 9781138923560

Verlag: Routledge, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This book brings together scholars, writers and commentators to examine the relationship between football, violence and the larger relations of power in which we all live our lives. Within the context of the NFL and the structural conditions in which the NFL has emerged, this book explores issues of racism, sexism and homophobia as a window into the social, political and cultural imprint of America's national pastime. The book argues that the NFL reveals a collective psychic participation, by which our subjectivity is formed within historical systems of violence, power, and hierarchy. The NFL's participation in and production of hegemonic masculinity, alongside its practices of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism, allows us to think deeply about the historical and contemporary systems of violence we are invested in and entertained by. Football becomes a cultural text to examine and learn from.

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David J. Leonard is a Professor at Washington State University, USA and author of After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness.

Kimberly B. George is a Ph.D. student in Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego, USA. She is also a writing consultant and an entrepreneur of alternative forms of critical social theory based education.

Wade Davis is a former NFL player, educator, writer and public speaker on gender, race, and LGBT rights. He is an NFL diversity consultant, a former surrogate for President Obama, and the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service from Northeastern University, USA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138923567
• ISBN 13: 9781138923560
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Herausgeber: Leonard David J., George Kimberly B., Davis Wade
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